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I’m tired of all the on-demand services utilizing WMV shit DRM! This goes for Netflix, BBC on-demand, Channel4, MTV Overload, Comedy Central Motherload. Sure Mac users are nowhere near a large market of users, but I’m a paying Netflix customer, and this service would be awesome. This better come out for Mac users!

They should go to a Flash verion like Adult Swim’s The Fix – the only on-demand service that is cross-platform.

Well, maybe my vote doesn’t count since I’m not a Netflix subscriber anyways, but I think the principle still holds here. If you can’t be bothered to make your service cross-platform, then I can’t be bothered to give you my business.

In defense of Netflix, they have only released this service to a portion of their customers, and the full roll out to every customer isn’t supposed to be complete until June. I don’t think you can really complain about the platform stuff until the whole process is finished in June. At that point, please feel free to fire away if they haven’t done anything for Mac users.

Since when is Adult Swim’s Fix cross platform? A few months ago they switched from their flash player to a new one that requires an ActiveX control to play. Thanks Adult Swim, now I have to watch Metalocalypse on Youtube. Really a dumb move for a company whose customers probably have a higher proportion of Mac users than the general populace.

I for one, welcome our new NetFlix overloards. I haven’t been impressed by the quality and load times for “streaming” video content (including on-demand cable services) as of yet, but this rocks in terms of these qualities so far. Make it cross platform, and I’d definitely pay more to use this on a regular basis.

maybe i missed something, but I was disappointed by how limited the offerings were. Like 10 tv shows when I looked, and fairly dated movies. again, maybe I missed something, or they are adding more content…?

I’m dorkily excited about this, and I can’t wait to get home this evening to try it out. My only fear is that my laptop will get cranky about having to use IE and Windows Media again after such a long vacation from both.

Dustbunny – I think Citron is referring to Netflix’s overall lowering of subscriber fees to compete with Blockbuster. Their 3-out plan was $19.99 for a while, and sometime last year it went down to $17.99.

Mine turned on after I clicked this. I saw the mention of it on my netflix page a little while ago, but no way to access it – it was a placeholder saying check back in June for the movies. This worked for me!

Dustbunny, It was lowered across the board to fight with Blockbuster, but I got another dollar off per month for being a member for two plus years, I think. I have the 3 out plan at $16.99/mo instead of $17.99/mo. They sent me an e-mail about it some time ago, but I forgot exactly what it said.

Oh, okay. It looks like you get 17 hours of viewing time per month right now. Or at least that’s what my page says, maybe it’s different if you have a larger/smaller rental plan. I should buy an S-Video cable for my TV now.